Last week, Sony released a round of seemingly innocuous interviews that focused on the company’s nebulous “creative entertainment vision.” Neil Druckmann, head of Sony-owned game studio Naughty Dog, was one of them – but his interview wasn’t what it seemed.
Druckmann, who led the team from behind Our last series, probably wildly misquoted by their employers. A few days after the interviews were published, he went to X and said, “That’s not what I said.” He even posted part of the original interview transcript, which is very different.
Sony has since retracted the interview and issued an apology on its old page, saying the article contained “significant errors and inaccuracies” covering “animation, writing, technology, artificial intelligence and future projects.” So if all this was inaccurate, what was accurate?
– Matt Smith
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The hit gadget is coming to the US.
Punirunes, Japan’s popular virtual pet, is coming to the US this summer. A game puni-punimeans ‘squishy’ in Japanese, a bit different kind of digital pet. In the center of the device is a dough button that simulates physical contact with your puniruns. When you tap it, your finger even appears on the device’s screen. Punirunes debut in August in the US for $40.
On qualifying orders over $12
Amazon has always offered free Grubhub+ restaurant delivery as part of its Prime subscription. If you pay $139 a year for a Prime subscription and are willing to spend more on food, you won’t pay anything for eligible GrubHub orders over $12. You’ll also see lower service fees, 5 percent credit on pickup orders, and possibly exclusive offers. Unlimited grocery delivery from Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh still costs an additional $10 per month.
The attacks took the site offline several times.
If you haven’t been able to access the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine for the past few days, it’s because the website has been attacked. The non-profit announced that it was “in its third day of preventing an intermittent DDoS cyberattack.”
The Internet Archive has yet to identify the source of the attacks, but has talked about how libraries and similar institutions are being targeted more often these days. One of the institutions he mentioned was the British Library, which was held for ransom by an online information hacking group last year.
The headset is scheduled to receive PC support this year.
After teasing about PC compatibility earlier this year, Sony has apparently created a PC adapter for the PS VR2, according to a Korean document discovered by VR and mixed reality enthusiast Brad Lynch. There are no details on how the adapter works, what it looks like, or how much it will cost, but it lends credence to previous evidence that the headset will have a wired PC connection. The company will be hoping that PC support boosts sales of its headphones, which haven’t exactly set the world on fire.
